Stack Score

Editorial pick✓ Verified working

Lexica

Image generation plus a searchable library of AI art prompts

Try Lexica✓ Free trial available

Best for

Best for creators who want to learn prompting by reverse-searching images they want to recreate.

At a glance

Pricing: freemiumfrom $10/mo
Setup time: < 1 day
Learning curve: easy
Last verified: 5/21/2026

What we love

✓Unmatched prompt library for learning
✓Reverse-search workflow is genuinely useful
✓Has an API for programmatic generation

Where it falls short

−Aperture model quality trails Midjourney
−Generation queue can lag during peak hours
−Limited control over composition

Pricing

✓ Pricing verified Jun 21, 2026

4 tiers

Free

forever

✓100 images/month
✓Public generations
✓Prompt search

Starter

$10

monthly

✓1,000 images
✓Private mode
✓Faster queue

Pro

$24

monthly

✓3,000 images
✓API access
✓Priority queue

Max

$48

monthly

✓7,000 images
✓Highest priority
✓Bulk export

Why we picked it

Lexica is the single best place to learn prompting by reverse-engineering work you like. The generator itself is solid; the prompt search engine is the moat.
— MoreAI.tools editor

Overview

Lexica started as a prompt-search engine for Stable Diffusion and grew into its own image generator with the Lexica Aperture model. The prompt library is its real differentiator — searching by image returns the exact prompt that made it.

Key features

●Searchable database of 10M+ AI images with prompts
●Lexica Aperture model for generation
●Reverse-image search to find prompt
●Style consistency via reference images
●High-resolution upscaling
●API access for generation
●Bulk export

Best use cases

Prompt research

Search the library for a style or subject, copy the prompt, and adapt for your own brief

Concept art exploration

Generate variations of a scene using a reference image and a style prompt

Integrations

Stable Diffusion

REST API

Similar tools

See all image generators →

Remove.bg

One-click background removal for photos at scale

Ideogram

AI image generation that gets text right.

DALL-E

OpenAI's image generator, native in ChatGPT.

Compare side-by-side

Lexica vs Remove.bg vs Ideogram

Pros, cons, pricing, role-fit — all on one page.

Open comparison

One AI Stack pick every week.

The tool we’d pay for this week, why we’d pay for it, and what we’d skip. No promo spam.